P310/3

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Paper 3
DECEMBER, 2020
3 hours

JINJA JOINT EXAMINATIONS BOARD

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education

MOCK EXAMINATIONS DECEMBER, 2020

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Paper 3

(Novels and Short Stories)

3 hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

This paper consists of four sections A, B, C and D

Candidates must answer three questions in all: one question must be chosen from
section D and two others from sections A, B and C

Not more than one question may be chosen from one section

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SECTION A
CHARLES DICKENS: Great Expectations
1. Discuss the significance of Pip’s first meeting of Magwich in the marshes to the novel
Great Expectations.

2. In what ways is Estella a true disciple of Miss Havisham? How does this change as
the novel progresses?

THOMAS HARDY: Tess of the D’Urbervilles

3. Examine the theme of nature as shown in the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles

4. How satisfactory is the ending of the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles?

JANE AUSTEN: Pride and Prejudice

5. Discuss the view that Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners.

6. Examine the character of Darcy. What is your reaction to him?

SECTION B
Choose one of the following passages, 7 – 9, study it carefully and answer the
questions that follow it.

MONGO BETI: The Poor Christ of Bomba

7.
The Father answered them tirelessly. whenever he recognized one of these women, he
stopped to talk to her and ask her questions. How was she?... And how about her
children?...And her husband?...And how many children had she now?

now and then the pathway plumped into a great puddle of water. How on earth does
the administrator manage to pass this way on a motor-bike?
Ah, yes! After the Father’s accident we had a visit from M. Vidal. It was after four
and the Father had finished confession; he was pacing about the courtyard reading his
breviary.

Suddenly, M. Vidal appeared, riding his motor bike with the usual soldier in the side-
car. He leapt off and ran toward the Father, who closed his breviary and stood
awaiting him.

M. Vidal seemed nervous and disquieted, looking anxiously at the Father as he took
off his helmet. Then he bowed slightly and said: ‘Good day, Father! I’ve had that
fellow locked up by the police of the nearest chief. Yes, he’s in the sub-division
prison right now. My goodness, what swine!’

The Father smiled and said: ‘What fellow are you talking about, Vidal?’

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‘What fellow? Why, the one who nearly killed you! Yes, that one…. I was only about
six kilometers away and someone came to warn me. I came dashing over to protect
you. Oh, admittedly I am a bit late! But all the same, I’ve clapped him inside.’

‘I am devoted to you, my dear M. Vidal, but I have no need of your protection,’ said
the Father.

‘Indeed, Father!... But, anyway, I’m not asking your advice. If a fellow makes a prick
of himself, I lock him up, and there’s an end of it. That’s my job. If you want another
martyr to this blasted climate – Strewth!’

‘So! You seem to have changed your tune!’

‘My tune, no. You exaggerate. But this sun is really beyond itself. And then, like you
the other day, I’ve got the blues.’

‘Impossible!’

‘OK. Laugh away if you like.’

‘And what about the road?’

‘Soon, Father, soon. We shall start work one of these days. Ah, that will change my
mood all right! I can’t wait.’

‘And…do you know?’

‘Who?’

‘The natives, naturally; the most interested parties in every sense.’

‘Oh, them!’ They’ll know soon enough. Listen, Father. I have a proposal to make: all
those who are Christians, I shall exempt from the work. Won’t that be a help, eh!’

‘You make me ashamed, my dear Vidal.’

‘So it is understood. But tell me, why did that nigger want to do you in?’

‘To begin with, he’s not a nigger. I detest that expression.’

‘And what importance does that have, a mere expression? Did you understand me or
not?’

They went together into the Father’s house and I gave them Cinzano. They drank and
lighted up; then the Father said: ‘Well, it was a very common sort of case. One night a
woman came to the mission demanding our protection.’

‘Protection against what, Father?’

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‘Protection against her father and husband.’

‘How come?’

‘It is a long story. Her husband, who was really only her fiancé, had paid half the sum
that was asked of him. He had promised solemnly to pay the rest as soon as possible
and had got his wife on that promise.’

‘Ha, ha, ha! Only the Americans would make a half sale like that. So?’

‘He went off with his wife. But, when the time came, he proved to be a bad payer. As
you can imagine, he wasted no time in getting the marriage registered at the sub-
divisional office. But, to his mind, the price was too high. For his part, the father
refused to lower it by a single cent. So they had a long series of palavers before the
chief, which raised the young man’s hopes.’

Questions
a) Briefly explain the context of this scene
b) What is Father Drumont’s attitude toward the Africans as shown in this scene?
c) Briefly describe the mood of this scene
d) How relevant is this scene here and to the rest of the novel?
NGUGI WA THIONG’O: Devil on the Cross
8.
The atmosphere in the cave grew cold. Many of the robbers felt their impending loss
in their bones. They all turned bitter eyes toward Mwĩreri wa Mũkiraaĩ.

The master of ceremonies was the one who saved the day again. He mounted the
platform and spoke with a heart full of repentance, begging the foreigners not to take
any notice of what had just been said because there was not a single thief or robber in
the whole cave who was not searching for ways and means of improving his
relationship with such important guests, to the greater glory of the system of theft and
robbery on Earth. Mwĩreri wa Mũkiraaĩ’s call to the thieves and robbers of every
country to be self-reliant and to stand aloof in a corner, patting their stomachs alone,
was just adolescent talk.

The master of ceremonies then swore by all the gods that there was not a single local
thief or robber present who supported the ideas of Mwĩreri wa Mũkiraaĩ. He reminded
the foreign guests about the parable with which he himself had opened the
proceedings that very morning. . . . The flag of Independence can be likened unto a
man traveling unto a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto
them his goods. . . .

The master of ceremonies paused in the middle of the parable, and he turned toward
the foreign thieves, and, smiling ingratiatingly with his golden teeth, he declared:
“Distinguished guests, we are your slaves. You have come back to see what we have
done with the talents you bequeathed to us in grateful recognition of the services we
rendered you in suppressing those of our people who used to call themselves freedom

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fighters. That is good. I would like to remind you that even today we have continued
to hoodwink our people into believing that you did actually leave the country. That’s
why we don’t call you foreigners, or imperialists, or white robbers. We call you our
friends. Therefore I beseech you, please resume your seats and be patient, so
that you can hear the stories of all the other man-eaters. Don’t worry about Mwĩreri
wa Mũkiraaĩ. We shall take care of him. His fate will be decided here today. I hope
that this apology is adequate. What remains is the apology of actions.”

He sat down. The leader of the foreign delegation of thieves and robbers accepted his
apology and said that they were content to wait for the apology of actions. He said:
Justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be done. Asante.

The thunderous applause that broke out in the cave almost brought down the ceiling
and the four walls.

Gatuĩria held Warĩĩnga’s hand. He still felt as if he were in a dream. Warĩĩnga

squeezed his hand. They sat in silence, both engrossed in their own thoughts, but each
feeling that were he or she to let go of the other’s hand, they would both drown in the
darkness of the cave.

Gatuĩria was not able to pursue his ideas to their logical conclusion. An
idea would come into his head and dance about there for a while, then it
would be driven out by a new thought. And the new thought would leap about for a
time before it too was driven out by another. His relentless desire for a suitable theme
for his music seemed to have evaporated. What worried him most now were thoughts
about Warĩĩnga’s past troubles. But as he turned over Warĩĩnga’s story in his mind,
the knowledge that Wangarĩ had gone to fetch the police and Mũturi the workers
intruded and bothered him. What would happen when all the forces met in the cave?
The noise and the chaos generated by the testimony of Mwĩreri wa Mũkiraaĩ also
troubled him. And he
didn’t even condemn the system of theft and robbery. All he said was that each thief
should steal from those in his own country. Suppose, then, a man like Mũturi should
come here and reject the whole system of theft and robbery?

And suddenly Gatuĩria felt like telling Warĩĩnga that they should flee, for his mind’s
eye was seeing images that made him tremble. And at the center of these images was
Mwaũra.
Gatuĩria thought he saw Mwaũra look at him with eyes full of ravenous
greed. Then he saw that it was not Mwaũra alone who looked at him in that manner.
All the people around him wore the same expression. Whenever one of the thieves
yawned, Gatuĩria thought he saw his teeth transformed into blood-soaked fangs that
were turned toward where he and Warĩĩnga sat. He heard a voice whisper to him:
These are the eaters of human flesh; these are the drinkers of human blood; these are
the modern Nding’ũri’s; take this girl and flee this place.

But another part of him urged him not to flee, to wait until the very end so that in
future they would not have to listen to yarns about how the feast had ended. For if
Gatuĩria had been told that there were still professional murderers and eaters of

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human flesh in the world, he would not have believed it. So the old man from Bahati,
Nakuru, had really been telling him stories of modern-day ogres?

Questions
a) Explain the context of this scene
b) What narrative techniques does Ngugi employ here and to what effect?
c) Briefly describe the mood of this scene.
d) Explain in brief the cave imagery. How relevant is it to your understanding of the
novel?

IVAN TURGENEV: Fathers and Sons

9.

Once for some reason they lingered quite a while; Nikolai Petrovich went out to
meet them in the garden and, upon approaching the arbor, suddenly overheard the
rapid footsteps and voices of the two young men. They were walking on the other side
of the arbor and couldn't see him.
"You don't know my father well enough," said Arkady.
Nikolai Petrovich hid.
"Your father's a good man," Bazarov said, "but he's antiquated; his song's been
sung."
Nikolai Petrovich listened more intently ... Arkady made no reply.
The "antiquated" man stood there without moving for a few minutes and then
slowly made his way home.
"A few days ago I looked over and he was reading Pushkin," Bazarov continued
meanwhile. "Tell him, if you would, that it's of no use. After all, he's no longer a
young
boy: it's time to toss that rubbish aside. Just imagine the desire to be a romantic in this
day and age! Give him something more substantial to read."
"What should I give him?"
"Well, I think Buchner's Stoff und Kraft
"I think so, too," Arkady observed approvingly. "Stoff und Kraft is written in a
popular style ..."
to begin with."
"So you see," Nikolai Petrovich said to his brother after dinner that same day while
sitting in his study, "you and I've become antiquated; our song's been sung. Well,
what
of it? Perhaps Bazarov's even right; but, I must confess, one thing hurts: this was
precisely when I'd hoped to become closer to Arkady. Now it turns out I've been left
behind while he's moved ahead, and we can't understand each other."
"How is it he's moved ahead? How's he so different from us?" Pavel Petrovich
exclaimed impatiently. "It's that signor, that nihilist who's been stuffing his head full
of
these things. I hate that so-called doctor; in my opinion, he's simply a charlatan; I

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doubt he knows that much about physics, even with all his frogs."
"No, Brother, don't say that: Bazarov's clever and he knows his stuff."
"His conceit's repulsive," Pavel Petrovich said, interrupting him.
"Yes," said Nikolai Petrovich. "He is conceited. But there seems to be no way
around that; here's what I don't understand. I seem to do all I can to keep up with the
times: I've made arrangements for my peasants, established a farm, with the result that
I'm called a "Red" throughout the province; I read, study, and try to respond in
general
to the requirements of our day—but they say my song's been sung. You know,
Brother,
I'm beginning to think perhaps it really has been sung."
"Why so?"
"Here's why. Today I was sitting and reading Pushkin ... as I recall, it happened to
be The Gypsies . . .
"You don't say! What book did he give you?"
Suddenly Arkady comes up to me and silently, with an expression
of such tender compassion, very gently, as if I were a little child, takes my book away
and places another one in front of me, a German one ... he smiles and then leaves,
carrying away my Pushkin."
"Here it is."
Nikolai Petrovich took from the back pocket of his frock coat a copy of the
notorious treatise by Büchner in its ninth edition.
Pavel Petrovich turned it over in his hands.
"Hmm!" he muttered. "Arkady Nikolaevich's worried about your education. Well,
have you tried to read it?"
"I have."
"And, what do you think?"
"Either I'm stupid or it's all rubbish. I must be stupid."
"You haven't forgotten your German?" asked Pavel Petrovich.
"I understand German."
Pavel Petrovich once again turned the book over in his hands and glanced at his
brother from under his brows. They were both silent.
"Oh, by the way," Nikolai Petrovich began, obviously eager to change the subject
of conversation. "I received a letter from Kolyazin."
"Matvei Ilich?"
"Yes. He's come to town to inspect the province. He's a person of consequence
now and writes that, as a relative, he wants to see us and has invited us and Arkady to
town."
"Are you going?" asked Pavel Petrovich.
"No. What about you?"
"I'm not going either. Why drag myself thirty miles for no good reason at all.
Mathieu wants to show himself to us in all his glory: to hell with him! The whole
province'll be singing his praises—he can do without us. What a great honor: a privy
councillor! If I'd continued in the civil service, engaged in such drudgery, why I'd be
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adjutant-general by now. Besides, you and I are antiquated people."

"Yes, Brother; clearly it's time to order our coffins and lay our arms across our
chests," Nikolai Petrovich observed with a sigh.
"Well, I won't give up so easily," his brother muttered. "We'll still have a skirmish
with that doctor fellow; I feel it coming."

Questions
a) What is happening at this point of the novel?
b) Explain briefly the significance of the dialogue in this scene
c) What contrasts between generations are shown in this scene?
d) Explain the significance of this scene here and elsewhere in the novel.

SECTION C
ALEX LA GUMA: A Walk in the Night
10. Discuss the effectiveness of the setting of night in the story of A Walk in the Night

11. Examine the theme of apartheid and its evils in the story in A Walk in the Night

EZEKIEL MPHALELE: In Corner B

12. How relevant is ‘In Corner B’ to our times?

13. How is the theme of violence developed in the story of ‘In Corner B’

CHINUA ACHEBE: The Voter

14. How are politics and politicians portrayed in Achebe’s ‘The Voter’

15. What makes ‘The Voter’ an interesting short story?

SECTION D
JULIUS OCWINYO: Footprints of the Outsider
16. How significant is the title Footprints of the Outsider to the novel Footprints of the
Outsider?

17. Discuss the different struggles Abdul Olwit goes through. How do these shape his
character as the novel progresses?

HENRY OLE KULET: Vanishing Herds

18. Discuss the importance of nature and the environment in the Maa society as shown in
Vanishing Herds

19. Examine the character and role of Norpisia in the novel Vanishing Herds

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OSI OGBU: The Moon Also Sets

20. In what ways does Obi fail? What causes this failure? Refer closely to the novel The
Moon Also Sets

21. Discuss the theme of tradition and culture as shown in the novel The Moon Also Sets.

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